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Kin in Far-flung Places

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao

July 20, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Diaspora – This story is intimately bound up in the experience of the Indian diaspora in colonial Fiji, who went to work there as indentured servants but were in reality little more than slaves. Caught between demotion and disgrace, Indian police officer Akal Singh is instead posted to colonial Fiji, where an investigation into the vanishing of an indentured Indian woman from a sugarcane plantation is complicated by the political pressures within the British Empire. I’m a sucker for an unusual setting in […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Mystery Tagged With: audiobook, cbr17bingo, colonialism, early 1900s, historical, historical mystery, India, mystery, Nilima Rao, Oceania

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:40 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Mystery · Tags: audiobook, cbr17bingo, colonialism, early 1900s, historical, historical mystery, India, mystery, Nilima Rao, Oceania ·
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I read a young adult book on India’s partition and felt like my heart was absolutely shredded

The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

June 22, 2025 by denesteak 4 Comments

The world is burning at the moment, and we may be hyper focused on the US trying to gun for the “Most Likely to Revert to a Dictatorship” award or Israel’s decision to start double-fisting wars or (literally happened today) US’s decision to join the Iran-Israel conflict — but do you know that WWIII came very close to breaking out in May? India and Pakistan — both nuclear-armed, and both sworn enemies since the Brits left — started bombing each other over militant attacks in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Fiction, India, Pakistan, partition, The Night Diary, Veera Hiranandani, Young Adult

denesteak's CBR17 Review No:8 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Fiction, India, Pakistan, partition, The Night Diary, Veera Hiranandani, Young Adult ·
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Around the World Around the World

Night Prayers by Santiago Gamboa

May 4, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Very mixed feelings on Night Prayers. Ultimately, it’s one of the best things I’ve read in 2025. It’s also one of the more frustrating. Gamboa writes in the style of his Latin American contemporaries such as Bolaño and Marquez. And for the most part, he does it well. This is a style I always enjoy sampling, even if it can frustrate me at times with its tangents and magic realism. I quit the book several times in the beginning but was inexorably drawn back to it and […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Bangkok, bogota, Colombia, diplomacy, India, literary fiction, mystery, new dehli, Night Prayers, Noir, Santiago Gamboa, Thailand

Jake's CBR17 Review No:19 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Bangkok, bogota, Colombia, diplomacy, India, literary fiction, mystery, new dehli, Night Prayers, Noir, Santiago Gamboa, Thailand ·
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Forced to leave home

Wings to Soar by Tina Athaide

March 14, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Diversity CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge April is Poetry Month. Therefore in March I decided to find a few books of poetry or novels that were prose poetry. And one of them was Wings to Soar by Tina Athaide. Currently available, I read it via an online reader copy. I do not think I will purchase copies for myself, but I think anyone who is interested in refugees, women authors or places we do not normally read about, this is the book for you. Aimed at […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: Autobiographical fiction, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, diversity, Emigration, England, europe, family, fathers, forced migration, Immigration & Refugees, India, parents, siblings, Tina Athaide, Uganda

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:140 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: Autobiographical fiction, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, diversity, Emigration, England, europe, family, fathers, forced migration, Immigration & Refugees, India, parents, siblings, Tina Athaide, Uganda ·
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Reviews 1 & 2

A Hen for Izzy Pippik by Aubrey Davis and Marie Lafrance

Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect : The True Story of Pakistan's First Woman Architect by Marzieh Abbas and Hoda Hadadi

January 2, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I decided to start my 2025 reading with a few books I found in 2024. And as I like easing into the new year, I decided to start with a picture book or two. Always a favorite genre of mine, as they can be both fun and informative. And the below titles are fun and especially informative with the second. I read both via an online reader copy but they are currently available.  Book One: A Hen for Izzy Pippik by Aubrey Davis and illustrated […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: architect, Aubrey Davis, Aubrey Davis and Marie Lafrance, Country & Cultural, Fairy Tales & Folklore, faith, family, Hoda Hadadi, India, Marie Lafrance, Marzieh Abbas, Marzieh Abbas and Hoda Hadadi, Social Themes, women, women architects, Yasmeen Lari

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: architect, Aubrey Davis, Aubrey Davis and Marie Lafrance, Country & Cultural, Fairy Tales & Folklore, faith, family, Hoda Hadadi, India, Marie Lafrance, Marzieh Abbas, Marzieh Abbas and Hoda Hadadi, Social Themes, women, women architects, Yasmeen Lari ·
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Nostalgia

Amla Mater by Devi Menon

December 4, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Even though I have trouble reading online, I am finding even my longer reads there. Such as Amla Mater by Devi Menon. It is less than 200 pages, and therefore more of a novella graphic novel, but what I mean by longer is not a picture book. Actually picture books can be relatively easy to read online (unless they have a smaller print, a lot of print or illustrations that need the book to be turned to read), but when I do my young adult […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Devi Menon, Emigration & Immigration, friendship, great britain, India, nostalgia, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:579 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Devi Menon, Emigration & Immigration, friendship, great britain, India, nostalgia, Social Themes ·
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